Les Batraciens de l’Indochine Overall a good solid copy

Overall a good solid copy that has been expertly restored

with 108 fine hand-colored engraved plates heightened with gum Arabic (4 hand-colored engraved plates of leaf shapes + 104 hand-colored engraved plates of flowers) and 108 uncolored plates printed in black (all plates in this work appear in two states

Chromolithographic plate

Dolf Schumann and Gerhard Kirsten

Gould's The Birds of Europe documented native Europe birds to the same artistic standards that had been previously applied to foreign birds

Les Batraciens de l’Indochine Overall a good solid copyPp. x, 547 (6), 191 fine text figures, 1 map, 4 full page fine color plates. Early dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt panel lines at the head and foot of the spine, thick small folio (32 x 22. 5 cm). According to Adler, History of Herpetology, volume 1, p. 107: this is the first herpetological review of the amphibians of French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos). From the private research collection of Cornell University